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Record W4417194663 · doi:10.1186/s13059-025-03864-4

RAMEN: Dissecting individual, additive and interactive gene-environment contributions to DNA methylome variability in cord blood

2025· article· en· W4417194663 on OpenAlexafffund
Erick I. Navarro‐Delgado, Darina Czamara, Karlie Edwards, Maggie P. Fu, Sarah M. Merrill, Chaini Konwar, Julie L. MacIsaac, David Lin, Piush Mandhane, Elinor Simons, Padmaja Subbarao, Theo J. Moraes, Jari Lahti, Gregory E. Miller, Elisabeth B. Binder, Katri Räikkönen, Stuart E. Turvey, Keegan Korthauer, Michael S. Kobor

Bibliographic record

VenueGenome biology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicEpigenetics and DNA Methylation
Canadian institutionsCanada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences CentreUniversity of British ColumbiaHospital for Sick ChildrenUniversity of ManitobaUniversity of AlbertaMichael Smith Health Research BCBC Children's Hospital
FundersNational Institute on Minority Health and Health DisparitiesCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchUniversity of British ColumbiaMitacsBC Children's Hospital
KeywordsDNA methylationContext (archaeology)Human geneticsCord bloodEpigeneticsMethylationDNAMicroarrayGenomics

Abstract

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Genetic variation and environmental exposures are amongst the main factors associated with inter-individual DNA methylation variability. However, the prevalence and genomic context of individual, additive, and interactive gene-environment effects remains unclear. We present RAMEN, an R package that dissects genome-exposome contributions to microarray Variably Methylated Loci using machine learning and statistical techniques. Analyzing cord blood samples from CHILD and PREDO (overall n = 1662), we identify genetic variants as key contributors to DNA methylation variability, usually in additive and interactive combinations with the environment. We provide a detailed catalogue of cord blood Variably Methylated Loci and the gene-environment contribution to their variability.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.049

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.294
Teacher spread0.286 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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